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From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: #'quoting functions when they are used as identifiers
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:26:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czi4sjid.fsf@bernoul.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmtha9nlf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I was wondering whether it is wrong per se to function-quote a
>> function-bound symbol if it serves as an argument to a function that
>> does not actually call the argument as a function but for which it
>> would never-the-less be a bug to be passed a symbol that isn't bound
>> as a function.
>
> I think using #' only makes sense at those places where a (lambda ...)
> could also be used.
>
>
>         Stefan "not completely sure he always follows that rule in practice"

Makes sense, thanks.

     Jonas "who has enough places left where #'should definitely be added"



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-29 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-27 12:27 #'quoting functions when they are used as identifiers Jonas Bernoulli
2022-03-27 18:58 ` Sean Whitton
2022-03-28  0:50 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-03-28 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-28 15:22   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-29 18:26   ` Jonas Bernoulli [this message]

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